Strategic Allocation of Development Projects in Post-Conflict Regions: A Gender Perspective for Colombia
Publisher: Sustainability
Author(s): Raphael J Nawrotzki, Verena Gantner, Jana Balzer, Thomas Wencker, and Sabine Brüntrup-Seidemann
Date: 2022
Topics: Gender, Peace and Security Operations
Countries: Colombia
We know little about the general geographic allocation of development projects in post-conflict regions, and specifically of gender-focused projects. In this study, we explore whether donor agencies prefer to work in “safe” places or dare to operate in conflict-affected zones. Using Colombia as a case study, we combine data on battle deaths from the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (1994–2004) with georeferenced information on the location of development projects from the Colombia AIMS dataset (2006–2013) and manually geocode data for German-funded development projects (2012–2018) with gender as a significant objective.